Re: FAMILY, Place of FORGIVENESS
Fr:
Pope Francis (2022), https://newswebgh.com/2022/05/26/pope-francis-retirement-speech-that-shocks-the-world/
There is no perfect family.
We do not have perfect parents, you are not
perfect yourself and we do not marry a perfect person or we do not have perfect
children.
Moreover, we have complaints from each
other. We cannot live together without offending one another.
Also, we are constantly disappointed. Yes,
for so many reasons at different times we are disappointed by one another.
There is no healthy marriage or healthy
family without the exercise of FORGIVENESS. Forgiveness is the MEDICINE for
family joy and happiness.
Forgiveness is vital to our emotional health
and spiritual survival. No matter the offense or who is the offender. Without forgiveness,
the family becomes an arena of conflict and a fortress of evil.
Without forgiveness, the family becomes sick
and unhealthy.
Forgiveness is the ASEPSIS of the soul, the PURIFICATION
of the spirit and the LIBERATION of the heart. No sin is too big to be forgiven.
He who does not forgive does not have PEACE in his souls and cannot have COMMUNION
with God.
Unforgiving is Evil and a poison that
intoxicates and kills the one who refuses to forgive.
And also, keeping the heartache of unforgiveness
in your heart is a self-destructive gesture. It’s autophagy [eat oneself up].
Those who do not forgive are physically,
emotionally and spiritually ill. And they will suffer in two ways.
For this reason, the family must be a place
of LIFE and not a place of death; a place of FORGIVENESS, a place of PARADISE
and not a place of hell; a HEALING territory and not of a disease; an
internship of forgiveness and not of guilt.
Forgiveness brings JOY where sorrow has
brought sadness. HEALING where sorrow has caused disease.
A family is a place of SUPPORT and not of
gossip and slander of one another. It must be a place of WELCOME not a place of
rejection. Shame to those who plan evil about others. We are family and not
enemies.
When anyone is going through a challenge,
all they need is SUPPORT.
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